Pep's contract situation | 2 year extension confirmed! (pg1817)

By the time Pep’s done, won’t the bloom be off Xavi’s rose at Barca?!

Tbh, I’m honestly wondering if Pep’s “genius” has seen its day and the next big thing is coming.

The world works at a certain frequency and, while football may have its own unique frequency, it is not immune to the cycles inherent in life.

May we live in interesting times.
 
Mariosfireworks said:
Do you not think Howe is a good manager? Look at the job he has done with the Newcastle team, got them right up there and not really spent much money, did a great job at Bournemouth on a shoe string budget, and his teams always play good football
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I agree, and to think he was basically unemployed after Bournemouth is crazy. I thought he was nailed on for Arse.
Arteta doing much better than most of us thought though.
 
117 M34 said:
No chance it will be kompany.
Won't be anyone who hasn't managed in the champions league.
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Our DOF is the one that bring Pep as manager for the first team in Barcelona with his only experience managing Barcelona B team, Txixi took lot of risk back then thrusting Pep into that role.

I think Txixi will doing the same with Kompany if he thinks he saw the same potential in him like Pep does back then.
 
Mariosfireworks said:
Do you not think Howe is a good manager? Look at the job he has done with the Newcastle team, got them right up there and not really spent much money, did a great job at Bournemouth on a shoe string budget, and his teams always play good football
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He has done an incredible job, there were question marks if he could handle life away from the South Coast, they have clearly been put to bed.

If we wanted Howe, not a chance he would walk away from the Toon, he could take that club to the very top of the game, they will be serious challengers to us on all levels in the coming years.

Same applies to Arteta, starting to look a high quality manager, always had a superb reputation as a coach and again why would he walk away from all the hard work he has done there?
 
JewelZee said:
Hansi Flick would be the best choice. Got Bayern back to the heights winning the CL after 3 seasons without Pep. Not that Ancilotti did a bad job. Heynckes filled in pretty well but he was then 73 years old. Kovacs was so-so by Bayern standards. Curious to see how Germany does in the WC under Flick. Nagelsmann, if Pep leaves after 2 or 3 more years is one to consider.
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Mariosfireworks said:
Do you not think Howe is a good manager? Look at the job he has done with the Newcastle team, got them right up there and not really spent much money, did a great job at Bournemouth on a shoe string budget, and his teams always play good football
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We are a much different beast , a massive machine if you will, we need a proven at the highest level manager so howe, lol, i like him but not for us
 
kaz7 said:
We are a much different beast , a massive machine if you will, we need a proven at the highest level manager so howe, lol, i like him but not for us
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If it was this summer I'd agree if we are talking 3 years from now Howe may well be in contention. If I had to name 5 contenders now for 2026 I think Howe would be in that list. Obviously the list may change between now and then.
 
kaz7 said:
Not sure , but needs to play our way , have big club experience and cl experience and be experienced enough to handle a squad like ours
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I can only think of one person that matches that, Enrique, who may or may not be available when we come to need somebody. To be honest a year ago my preference was Ten Hag but that won't happen now so predicting who's available in 3 years is imposssible.
 
blueparrot said:
I can only think of one person that matches that, Enrique, who may or may not be available when we come to need somebody. To be honest a year ago my preference was Ten Hag but that won't happen now so predicting who's available in 3 years is imposssible.
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Agreed it is impossible now and assuming pep does do another three yrs of course
 
blueparrot said:
I can only think of one person that matches that, Enrique, who may or may not be available when we come to need somebody. To be honest a year ago my preference was Ten Hag but that won't happen now so predicting who's available in 3 years is imposssible.
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Enrique had no such experience when he was given the Barcelona job. Pep had even less, so did Villanova. Same with Zidane when he was appointed Real Madrid manager. Or Arteta at Arsenal, or Potter at Chelsea.

If big clubs hired only managers that already had Champions League experience or had only managed other big clubs and squads, there wouldn't be enough managers to go round.

I know it is not your own point as such, responding more to the theme here just now rather than specifically to you.
 
I would take an intern manager for 2/3 season and bring pep back again. Let him go off and do what he wants but he won’t find another club that will support him like city. Maybe he will one day end up at the Barca academy but not anytime soon. Go for a lesser known name and wait until he returns. He can then do another 10 season :-)
 
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